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Online
You can now use a secure online site to join OWANA or renew your
membership. Go to the
"Join" page.
Octoberama at Mathews
Join
us for the 20th Annual Octoberama on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at
Mathews Elementary. As always, Octoberama offers great food,
games, music, performances and a silent auction. Come have fun
and help raise money for Mathews! This fundraiser helps the
Mathews PTA support the school in a variety of ways. Admission is
free. For more details, www.octoberama.org.
-10/7/08
New OWANA Steering
Committee
The just-elected heroes who are serving
on the Steering
Committee is now available. (Updated 10/08)
OWANA Area Police
Contact
The
supervisor of the Central West Austin Command is Dustin Lee. This
covers the area north of 12th St. His
phone number is 974-5795 and his email is dustin.lee@ci.austin.tx.us
Please keep him informed of criminal activities. - 1/25/08
December OWANA Owl
Newsletter
The
latest
newsletter is now available. - 12/5/07
Steering Committee
Minutes
The minutes
for the Oct. 1 OWANA Steering Committee meeting have been posted.
Remember you can see minutes for both Steering Committee and General
Membership meetings on our Meetings page. - 11/23/07
Kill-a-Watt Challenge
Celebration Party
Sunday, Nov. 18, noon - 4pm.
Please walk or bike if possible. Old West Austin neighborhood has won the
city's contest to reduce energy consumption: "[O]ver the course of
the entire four months, participants in Old West Austin reduced their
electricity usage by the highest percentage of all the participating
neighborhoods (33.95%)."
- 11/6/07
Big News! "The American
Planning Association has selected Old West Austin as one of 10 Great
Neighborhoods in America for its preservation of the neighborhood's
character and diversity while supporting development and
sustainability." Read
all about it.
- 10/2/07
Austin Police
Department's Commander's Forum for Downtown area residents. Thursday,
August 30 at 6 PM. Mexican-American Cultural Center, 600 River St.
(near Rainey). It will be a chance to meet the new Chief. - 8/21/07
The list of OWANA
Business Members has been updated. Support the businesses that
support OWANA.
- 4/28/07
Downtown District Police
Representatives
Officer
Martin Limon
974-3822
Officer
Mike Jones
974-5345
Officer
Kevin Covington
974-9774
These
3 officers are specifically assigned as described below:
There
are actually three District Representatives that cover the Downtown
Area Command. The Downtown Area Command covers the downtown area, which
includes the warehouse district, west campus and the Clarksville area
from the river north to 12th St. We actually share each others work so
that we all know whats going on in each area. Please feel free to
contact us with any concerns you might have and we will try to help you
as much as possible. We are currently being pulled out of the office at
different times to rotate through patrol a month at a time so, if we
don't answer the phone e-mail us and we will get back to you as soon as
we can.
- 4/7/07
Pease
Park needs help. Read a proposed
plan to restore this important part of our area.
This website now has the inventory
of buildings in the West Line Historic District. There is a
permanent link to this in the Main Menu, to the left, in the Documents
section. -10/4/06
OWANA
has been granted 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the IRS. Thanks to all
who put in many hours on this. -
6/27/06
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